September 18-22 is National Postdoc Appreciation Week! Join the department in recognizing and celebrating Fulya Pinar and Michael Berman. 

Fulya Pinar (pictured left) is a Postdoctoral Scholar in Middle East Studies and a cultural anthropologist, focused on displacement and social movements in Turkey and the Middle East. Working with solidarity networks among social justice activists and internally and externally displaced people in Istanbul, Turkey, Fulya’s research centers on solidarity and belonging, agency and refusal, and migrant futures.

Michael Berman (pictured right) is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in International Humanities. His research focuses on the politics of listening as a form of care. Observing and engaging in acts of listening allows Michael to link broad questions about the nature of politics, relations, generality, and history to questions posed at the level of experience and interaction.